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Marko Simonović, researcher at the University of Florence and at INFN was awarded the 2024 Breakthrough Prize “New Horizons in Physics”, for his contributions to our understanding of the large-scale structure of the universe and the development of new tools to extract fundamental physics from galaxy surveys, together with Mikhail Ivanov, researcher at MIT, and Oliver Philcox, researcher at the Columbia University and at the at the Simons Foundation. The Breakthrough Prizes are also known as the “Oscars of science”, and the New Horizons in Physics Prize is awarded to promising early-career researchers who have already produced important work. The physics prizes were founded by Yuri Milner, a former physicist now entrepreneur, and are funded by a grant from the foundation established by Yuri and Julia Milner. Marko recently moved to Florence, after having worked at CERN, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and at the Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA) in Trieste, where he got his PhD. We asked him to tell us about his research interests and his works that led to this internationally renowned prize.
What are your research interests? What are you working on at the moment?
I'm a cosmologist, so my interests are mainly in theoretical cosmology. This means I study the small density fluctuations that we observe either in the late universe or the early universe, and I try to infer the history and the composition of the universe from these observations.
The Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) today adopted the LISA and EnVision missions. These are respectively the most important space observatory for gravitational waves and a probe that will study the many mysteries still hidden on the planet Venus.
The scientific collaboration Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), which published the first “photo” of a black hole in 2019, has published new images of M87*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Messier 87 galaxy.
The ultracold atoms lab of the Pitaevskii Center for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Trento reports for the first time the observation of phenomena related to the stability of our universe. The results arise from the collaboration among the National Institute of Optics of Cnr, the Physics Department of the University of Trento, Tifpa-Infn and the University of Newcastle and it has been published in Nature Physics.
An entirely Italian research group composed of scientists of the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), the University of Florence, and INFN started analysing two samples of the Ryugu asteroid.
Antonella Castellina, researcher of INAF’s Astrophysical Observatory of Turin, who works at the INFN Turin Division, was elected scientific coordinator of the Pierre Auger Observatory.
The prestigious 2024 Bruno Rossi prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society was awarded to Martin Weisskopf, Paolo Soffitta, and to the scientific collaboration of the IXPE mission “for their development of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer whose novel measurements advance our understanding of particle acceleration and emission from astrophysical shocks, black holes and neutron stars”.
The Galileo Galilei Institute, the INFN National Center for Advanced Studies dedicated to theoretical physics, won a Targeted Grant to Institutes from the Simons Foundation, with a total value of approximately 500,000 dollars. It is the second time that GGI wins the Simons funding call.
QUANTUM. THE REVOLUTION IN ONE LEAP: AN EXHIBITION ABOUT QUANTUM MECHANICS, BETWEEN REALITY AND PARADOX Counter-intuitive, shocking, fascinating. That’s quantum mechanics. It’s an idea that has overturned our way of seeing reality and understanding the universe. Its intriguing history and the cultural and technological revolution that it brought to science and society are recounted in the exhibition: Quantum. The revolution in one leap. Created by INFN and MUSE (the Science Museum of Trento), the exhibition is open to the public from 7 December 2023 to 15 June 2024. ...
FRIDAYS OF THE UNIVERSE Once again this year, the INFN is taking part in Ferrara in the initiative I Venerdì dell’Universo (Fridays of the Universe), organised by the INFN and the University of Ferrara in collaboration with the Gruppo Astrofili "Columbia" of Ferrara: a series of science-themed seminars in which scientists open a window on their research. The 2024 edition of I Venerdì dell'Universo takes place from 26 January to 12 April with a series of six events hosted at Sala Estense in Ferrara's Piazza del Municipio. Among others, some events will feature INFN researchers. In particular, the event celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Ferrara INFN Division will be held on 5 April.
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